WE WERE THE KINGS Bob Bennett © 2002 Bright Avenue Songs (ASCAP) They found my best friend in the yard today Hedge clippers and a heart attack I dropped the telephone and I said no way But then i caught the first plane back Everything was smaller than I remember The houses and yards all pushed up together All up and down our old street I could see The ruined castles of our royalty Escaping prisoners, we were college bound They'll never bring us back alive Passed the city limits without slowing down He'd navigate and I would drive All night to Vegas, stayed out late, got up early In a week we were rich, dating showgirls named Shirley Homesick and sick of home -- it made no sense 'Cause there didn't seem to be much difference    You think you leave a place    But it never really goes away    It haunts you in the night    And wraps around your DNA    Just when you think you won't get caught    You find it's you that can't let go    Of everything that you've been taught    There's no forgetting what you think you know Every few years, he'd make another kid With his first and final wife I tried a couple times, but I never did Manage to build that kind of life He worked in aerospace 'til the day that he retired I worked at every kind of job 'til the day I got fired We traded Christmas cards and birthday calls He climbed the ladder while I climbed the walls    You think you get away so clean    Until the moment that you find    Memories stick like bubble gum    Under your shoe and in your mind    You can walk the whole world round your heart    But you can never find the way    To where the ending meets the start    I'll never live to see a sadder day (No way, there's just no way) It was so real, I had a dream We were both dressed as superman on Halloween He had a Snickers bar, he took a bite He did not know that it was kryptonite He said "I gotta go now, trick or treat, Long live the King of Summer Street, Long live the King of Summer Street"    We were the kings of everything    All we'd survey, everyone we'd meet    Just him and me ...    We were the kings of summer street    We were the kings of summer street    We were the kings ...